Master of Arts in Missiology

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    Intercessory prayer ministry as missiological approach among Muslims in Abidjan city
    (Adventist University of Africa, 2025-06) Tanoh Kakou Salomon
    Prayer is an essential and widely practiced ritual in both Christianity and Islam. Muslims and Christians believe that prayer allows a person to communicate with God and form a relationship with Him. This research through qualitative content analysis looks at how to implement intercession prayer ministry and how it might be utilized as a mission tactic to reach Muslims. Interviews and focus group discussions were performed among Adventist Muslim Background Believers (AMBBs) to determine the effectiveness of their covert intercessory prayer on behalf of their Muslim acquaintances. The testimony recounted indicates that God is still working in the lives of individuals who do not have access to the gospel, as well as those who have but have hardened hearts against it. This presupposes that the discipleship program to convert Muslim to Christianity should be vigorously thought through and implemented to ensure that Muslims gradually shift their worldview from the Islamic to the Christian worldview of prayer, specially Adventist worldview. It means firstly, to teach them (AMBBs) that prayer is crucial in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and finally, praying in the name of Jesus (Isa) is more beneficial. Based on a robust understanding of Adventist MBB experience, employing the intercessory prayer ministry to lead Muslims to Adventism in Abidjan City appears to be a viable option. CISEC territory has shown that intercessory prayer is an avenue that the Church can explore in the missionary work. Besides, the involvement of Pastors, Church leaders and members in intercessory prayer may be helpful to lead many Muslims to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The anticipated outcome of this study is for individual workers to integrate the Adventist MBB conversion journeys with their personal experiences of evangelism and philosophies of ministry in order to stimulate “adaptive” witness among Muslims in our day. This require a further research on how the house church model of Muslim discipleship can be implemented in Abidjan City, and the entire CISEC jurisdiction. Adventist Muslim Background Believers (AMBBs) should be encouraged to get involved in intercessory prayer ministry in line with the Muslim worldview for Muslim missions.